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Stumping in New Hampshire on Wednesday, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney revealed a bit about his strategies for staying in shape on the campaign trail.
"Hey, I heard you pull the cheese off your pizza to stay thin. Is that true?" asked a woman at Village Pizza in Newport, N.H., in the southwestern part of the state, where the Romney bus tour had made a stop.
"You know, on occasion, but on the campaign trail you need all the calories you can get," laughed Romney.
"And do you run three miles a day like they say?" she asked.
"Yes, although these days I'm mostly on the treadmill," said Romney.
"That's alright," she assured him.
Another woman wanted to discuss weightier issues as the state's Republicans prepare for their Jan. 10 primary.
"It kind of concerns me, that I don't know if you're conservative enough to hold the line against Democrats in Congress," the woman asked. "Can you reassure me that you actually are?"
That's when Romney played his New England card:
"Well, there's a little state south of here that you know called Massachusetts, and a legislature there 85 percent Democrat. And I was in office there four years as you know, didn't raise taxes, cut taxes 19 times, balanced the budget every year for four years," said Romney, whose campaign is predicated on winning New Hampshire.
"I made sure that our kids going to school were taught in English. We had English immersion put in place when I was governor," Romney continued, this point to claps from at least one listener. "We also had our state police trained to enforce national immigration laws. I think if you look at my record in Massachusetts you'll be convinced that I'm a conservative businessman who's had the chance of helping turn a state around."
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By joanjet on Saturday, June 24, 2017At my husbands suggestion we traded our 2010 Subaru Outback for a 2016 Subaru Forester. We didnt feel the need for all the technology so we opted for the premium rather than go all out for the limited edition. We get great gas mileage and I am thrilled with that. Pick up on the highway when passing is awesome and the cruise keeps it at a nice even pace. The Forester sits a bit higher so as we are aging it makes it easier to get in and out of. Not quite as much room in the back for hauling things as my Outback. My only real complaint are the seats. I find them very hard and uncomfortable. I have tried adjusting my drivers seat every which way but I cant find anything that works. Ive even purchased some sheep skin seat covers thinking they would help but that hasnt made much difference. I read somewhere that it might have something to do with the heating system in the seat but I dont know how accurate that is. I often wonder if the limited edition seats are more comfortable although that doesnt help me now.
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As I have spent much of the day sending emails to Washington urging members of Congress to reject the Senate fiscal cliff deal, its occurred to me that we've all been in this situation before. We have a dead car. The mechanic says it needs a new engine and new brakes, but you can only fix one of the two. Doesn't the debate just become hypothetical? I'd like to suggest that the lesson from this whole sordid episode is that the income tax is dead, and we should bury it. Seventy percent of our national economic activity is driven by consumer spending, which means that whatever goes to Washington doesn't cycle immediately into the economy. People without money don't participate in the economy. People with a little more money, particularly the self-employed, can avoid taxes simply by fluctuating their business activity. As a general rule, the rich really don't care. So, no matter what Congress does, the brunt of the failed Obama policies are going to fall on those who can afford it least. If one thing should happen this year, it should be the beginning of an entire dialog on how to move beyond the income tax. Dead and buried. So what comes next? I don't have an answer. national sales tax? value added tax? a tax on stupidity, which would weigh heaviest on our elected leadership? At this point, the question should be squarely on the table in Washington when the new Congress convenes. It would seem that America has now rejected the income tax. What should replace it?


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- "And you were so special a gift to me, in a time of sorrow and mental suffering, and your love, opening at once almost as soon as you were born, foretold to me, as it were in spoken words, that I am consoled ever by the certainty that there is no end to this."
- ― J.R.R. Tolkien[1]
Christopher John Reuel Tolkien (21 November 1924 - 16 January 2020) was the third child and the youngest son of J.R.R. Tolkien and Edith Tolkien. He was the literary executor of the Tolkien Estate until his resignation, in 2017, and he edited much of his father's work for posthumous publication.[2]
Early life
Christopher Tolkien was named after his father's friend, Christopher Wiseman[3]}(he also sometimes used his confirmation name, "John" as seen on his initials of maps of The Lord of the Rings, "CJRT").
Born in Leeds and raised in Oxford, Christopher went to the Dragon School in Oxford and Oratory School in Caversham, Berkshire. He enjoyed watching stars with a telescope as well as a passion for railways. As early as age four and five, Christopher was concerned with the consistency of The Hobbit.
[O]n one occasion I interrupted: 'Last time, you said Bilbo's front door was blue, and you said Thorin had a golden tassel on his hood, but you've just said that Bilbo's front door was green and that Thorin's hood was silver'; at which point my father muttered 'Damn the boy,' and then 'strode across the room' to his desk to make a note.
—Christopher Tolkien, foreword to The Hobbit
Christopher proved invaluable in correcting The Hobbit after its publication and was paid twopence a correction.
Due to a heart ailment, he was forced to stay at home and work with a private tutor. After spending a year with heart-specialists, on the turn of 1939, Christopher wanted to go to school.[4]
Young adulthood
In July of 1943 he entered the Royal Air Force and in November of that year he went to South Africa to train as a pilot. His absence did not however slow his contributions to his father's works as his father continually sent him parts of The Lord of the Rings to go over. In 1945 he returned to England and was stationed in Shropshire and later that year he returned to Oxford.
On October 9th, 1945 his father informed him that the Inklings wished to consider him a permanent member. The task of reading The Lord of the Rings to the Inklings was passed on to Christopher and it was generally agreed that he was a better reader than his father.
In 1954-55 Christopher was delegated the re-drawing of his father's Lord of the Rings maps for publication.
In 1946 Christopher returned to Trinity College to resume his studies and reading English. For a while his tutor was C.S. Lewis. His thesis was a translation of The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise and he received his B.A. in 1949. Christopher also became a lecturer in Old and Middle English as well as Old Icelandic at Oxford. He worked as an editor on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Pardoner's Tale, and the Nun's Priest's Tale. From 1963 to 1975 he was a Fellow of New College, Oxford but resigned when he began to devote his time to his father's literary affairs, and soon afterward moved with his family to southern France.
After his father's death
After his father's death, Christopher embarked on organizing the masses of his father's notes, some of them written on odd scraps of paper a half-century earlier. Much of the material was handwritten, frequently a fair draft was written over a half-erased first draft, and names of characters routinely changed between the beginning and end of the same draft. Deciphering this was an arduous task, and perhaps only someone with personal experience of J.R.R. and the evolution of his stories could have made any sense of it; even so, Christopher has admitted to having to occasionally guess at what his father intended.
With the help of Guy Gavriel Kay he managed to compile The Silmarillion in only four years. During this time, he also edited his father's translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Sir Orfeo. He also worked on the Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings, which was first published in 1975 as Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings in A Tolkien Compass.
Christopher spent the years after continuing to study his father's works and taking the responsibilities of the Tolkien Estate. He recorded portions of The Silmarillion in 1977 and 1978 which was issued by Caedmon Records, New York. In 1979 he wrote about his father's illustrations and drawings for their publication in Tolkien calendars and Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien. Through 1980 and 1983 Christopher edited Unfinished Tales, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays, and The Book of Lost Tales Part One which was the first volume in his twelve volume series of The History of Middle-earth, the last of which was published in 1996. In 1998 he edited a new edition of Tree and Leaf including the poem Mythopoeia. In 2007, he edited The Children of Húrin, the first of the so called Great Tales of Middle-earth. His last publications were the editing of Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary (2014), Beren and Lúthien (2017) and The Fall of Gondolin(2018).
In 2016, Christopher Tolkien was awarded the Bodley Medal, the Bodleian Libraries' highest honour, for his "editorial work on his father's manuscripts" and his "academic career at the University of Oxford".[5]
In August 2017, Christopher Tolkien resigned from his appointment as director of the Tolkien Estate.[6][7]
Christopher Tolkien died on 16 January, 2020 in Draguignan, in France.[8]
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...I recognize that this is a debatable and complex question of art, and the suggestions that have been made that I 'disapprove' of the films, whatever their cinematic quality, even to the extent of thinking ill of those with whom I may differ, are wholly without foundation.
—Christopher Tolkien
Christopher Tolkien had never in his entire life sympathized the adaptations at any form of the works of his father. As a result, he never approved the idea of the adaptations of any works of his father that Tolkien Estate hold the copyright at any form, such as The Silmarillion or The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.
Christopher's first wife, Faith (1928) took an English degree at Oxford and they had one son, Simon Tolkien. A bust of Tolkien by Faith was exhibited at the Royal Academy: Tolkien paid for its casting in bronze. It is now in the English Library in Oxford.
Christopher's second wife, Baillie (1941) is Canadian, and is the daughter of Winnipeg surgeon Alan Klass, and Helen Klass (née Jacob). She has a BA in English from the University of Manitoba and an MA from Oxford. She worked as J.R.R. Tolkien's secretary and was responsible for the section on poetry in the 1965 index to The Lord of the Rings. She later edited The Father Christmas Letters. She and Christopher have two children, Adam Tolkien and Rachel Tolkien.
In the biographical drama film, named Tolkien, he appears briefly, and he was portrayed by actor Jack Riley.
- 195?: Tolkien Hervarar Saga ok Heidreks Konungs. C.J.R. Tolkien (Oxford University, Trinity College). B. Litt. thesis. 1953/4. [Year uncertain]
- 1956: Hervarar Saga ok Heidreks. Ed. [E.O.] G. Turville-Petre. London: University College London, for the Viking Society for Northern Research, 1956; introduction by Christopher Tolkien.
- 1958: The Pardoner's Tale. Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. Nevill Coghill and Christopher Tolkien. London: George G. Harrap, 1958. [29 Oct 58]
- 1959: The Nun's Priest's Tale. Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. Nevill Coghill and Christopher Tolkien. London: George G. Harrap, 1959. [28 Feb 60]
- 1960: The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise. Ed. and trans. Christopher Tolkien. London: Thomas Nelson & Sons (Icelandic Texts), 1960. [30 Jun 60]
- 1969: The Man of Law's Tale. Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. Nevill Coghill and Christopher Tolkien. London: George G. Harrap, 1969. [Jun 69]
- 1975: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo (editor)
- 1977: The Silmarillion (editor)
- 1979: Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien (editor)
- 1980: Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth (editor)
- 1981: The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (editor with Humphrey Carpenter)
- 1983: The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays (editor)
- 1983: The Book of Lost Tales Part One (editor)
- 1984: The Book of Lost Tales Part Two (editor)
- 1985: The Lays of Beleriand (editor)
- 1986: The Shaping of Middle-earth (editor)
- 1987: The Lost Road and Other Writings (editor)
- 1988: Tree and Leaf (editor)
- 1988: The Return of the Shadow (editor)
- 1989: The Treason of Isengard (editor)
- 1990: The War of the Ring (editor)
- 1992: Sauron Defeated (editor)
- 1993: Morgoth's Ring (editor)
- 1994: The War of the Jewels (editor)
- 1996: The Peoples of Middle-earth (editor)
- 2007: The Children of Húrin (editor)
- 2009: The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún (editor)
- 2013: The Fall of Arthur (editor)
- 2014: Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary (editor)
- 2017: Beren and Lúthien (editor)
- 2018: The Fall of Gondolin (editor)
- 1955-6: Saga-Book (University College, London, for the Viking Society for Northern Research) 14, part 3 (1955-6), pp. [141]-63.
- "The Battle of the Goths and the Huns"
- 1975: A Tolkien Compass
- "Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings". J.R.R. Tolkien, ed. Christopher Tolkien
- 1975: Les aventures de Tom Bombadil
- [Handwritten note by Christopher Tolkien, dated March 1974, introducing two pages of script by J.R.R. Tolkien]
- 1980: Mallorn 14
- "The Silmarillion, by J.R.R. Tolkien: A brief account of the book and its making"
- 1982: Quettar 13, Feb. 1982, pp. 8-9
- "The Tengwar Numerals". Christopher Tolkien ('CRT after JRRT'); rptd. Beyond Bree Dec. 1984, p. 1. Further, untitled, explanation of Tengwar numerals by Christopher Tolkien ('CRT after JRRT 10 March 1982'), in Quettar 14, May 1982, pp. 6-7.
- 1983: Amon Hen 63, August 1983, p. 4
- "...Future Publishing". Reproduced as 'Statement by Christopher Tolkien' in Beyond Bree, November 1983, p. 2.
- 1984: Amon Hen 70, November 1984, p.3.
- "'Moria Gate' ... Another Look"
- 1986: Beyond Bree July 1986, pp. 1-3
- "Notes on the Differences in editions of The Hobbit cited by Mr. David Cofield"
- 1987: The Hobbit. J.R.R. Tolkien. London: Unwin Hyman, 1987; fiftieth anniversary edition.
- Foreword
- 1988: Beyond Bree, August 1988, pp. 1-2
- "The BBC Pronunciation Guide to The Lord of the Rings". Nancy Martsch. [About the transcription of Christopher Tolkien's recording of words and names in The Lord of the Rings for the BBC production by Brian Sibley.]
- 1994: The Lord of the Rings, (1994 edition by HarperCollins Publishers, p.1140 of the one-volume edition)
- "A Note on the Maps"
- 2012: Le Monde, 5 July
- "Tolkien, l'anneau de la discorde" by Raphaëlle Rérolle (interview; English translation)
- 2016: The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun
- "Note on the text"
- 1976: The Lord of the Rings 1977 Calendar. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1976. Notes on the Pictures by Christopher Tolkien.
- 1976: Catalogue of an Exhibition of Drawings by J.R.R. Tolkien at the Ashmolean Museum Oxford ... Oxford: The Ashmolean Museum, 1976. Introduction by Baillie Tolkien. [?14 Dec 76]
- 1977: The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien: A Brief Account of the Book and its Making (pamphlet)
- 1977: The Silmarillion Calendar 1978. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1977. Notes on the Pictures by Christopher Tolkien.
- 1978: J.R.R. Tolkien Calendar 1979. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1978. Notes on the Pictures by Christopher Tolkien.
- 1978: Map of Beleriand and the Lands to the North [poster]. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1978. As drawn by Christopher Tolkien for The Silmarillion, with colouring by H.E. Riddett.
- 1980: Letter from Christopher Tolkien to Jared Lobdell, 21 June 1974, reproduced in: Eorclanstanar [Precious Stones] or The Hobbitiana: an offering of rarities by J.R.R. Tolkien [catalogue]. Melissa and Mark Hime [booksellers]. Idyllwild, California: 1980.
- 1977: J.R.R. Tolkien: The Silmarillion: Of Beren and Luthien, read by Christopher Tolkien. New York: Caedmon Records TC1564, 1977. Sleeve notes by Christopher Tolkien. (Sleeve also has photo of CT.)
- 1978: J.R.R. Tolkien: Of the Darkening of Valinor, and Of the Flight of the Noldor, from The Silmarillion, read by Christopher Tolkien. New York: Caedmon Records TC 1579, 1978. Sleeve notes by Christopher Tolkien. (Sleeve also has photo of CT.)
- 1992: The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son, Read by J.R.R.Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien, HarperCollins Audiobooks.
- 2007: The Children of Húrin Audiobook, Preface and introduction Read by Christopher Tolkien. HarperCollins Audiobooks.
- 2022: The Great Tales Never End, a book dedicated in Christopher's Tolkien memory. Published by Bodleian Libraries.
Family Tree
|Edith Bratt
|J.R.R. Tolkien
|John Tolkien
|Michael Tolkien
|Faith Faulconbridge
|Christopher Tolkien
|Baillie Tolkien
|Priscilla Tolkien
|Simon Tolkien
|Adam Tolkien
|Rachel Tolkien
See also
External links
- History of the Silmarillion vs. History of Middle-earth at thehalloffire.net (Quote a letter of Christopher Tolkien)
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien; Humphrey Carpenter, Christopher Tolkien (eds.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 64, (dated 30 April 1944)
- ↑ "History of Middle-earth", Tolkien.co.uk (accessed 18 November 2012)
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien; Humphrey Carpenter, Christopher Tolkien (eds.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 306, (undated, late 1967 - early 1968)
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien; Humphrey Carpenter, Christopher Tolkien (eds.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 35, (dated 2 February 1939), p. 42
- ↑ "Editor and Scholar Christopher Tolkien awarded Bodley Medal" dated 3 November 2016, bodleian.ox.ac.uk (accessed 6 November 2016)
- ↑ "The Tolkien Estate Limited, Officers", Companies House (accessed 14 November 2017)
- ↑ "Christopher Tolkien deixa Tolkien Estate", Tolkien Brasil (accessed 15 November 2017)
- ↑ Laurent Amalric avec e.e., "Christopher, le fils de J.R.R. Tolkien, s'est éteint dans le Var à l'âge de 95 ans" dated 16 January 2020, Var-martin (accessed 20 January 2020)


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GOP's zeal for repealing Obamacare seems to have faded
Pat Cunningham
The first bill introduced in the new Congress the other day was a measure sponsored by Michele Bachmann calling for the repeal of Obamacare.
If the bill passes, this would be the 34th time the House has voted to repeal all or part of the Affordable Care Act. But now there's reason to wonder if it will pass — or at least pass with anything resembling zealous support.
You see, Bachmann has yet to find a co-sponsor for her bill.
Steve Benen SUMS UP the situation:
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[This post was first published in February of 2008.]
In 1986, Salomon Brothers, an investment bank, was known as "the King of Wall Street." The Salomon atmosphere has since been hilariously depicted in Michael Lewis's now-classic Liar's Poker, in which he recounts his experiences at the firm. He opens the book with the following anecdote.
It was sometime early in 1986, the first year of the decline of my firm, Salomon Brothers. Our chairman, John Gutfreund, left his desk at the head of the trading floor and went for a walk. At any given moment on the trading floor billions of dollars were being risked by bond traders. Gutfreund took the pulse of the place by simply wandering around it and asking questions of the traders. An eerie sixth sense guided him to wherever a crisis was unfolding. Gutfreund seemed able to smell money being lost.
He was the last person a nerve-racked trader wanted to see. Gutfreund (pronounced Good friend) liked to sneak up from behind and surprise you. This was fun for him but not for you. . . . You felt a chill in your bones that I imagine belongs to the same class of intelligence as the nervous twitch of a small furry animal at the silent approach of a grizzly bear. An alarm shrieked in your head: Gutfreund! Gutfreund! Gutfreund!
Often as not, our chairman just hovered quietly for a bit, then left. You might never have seen him. The only trace I found of him on two of these occasions was a turd-like ash on the floor beside my chair, left, I suppose, as a calling card. Gutfreund's cigar droppings were longer and better formed than those of the average Salomon boss. I always assumed that he smoked a more expensive blend than the rest, purchased with a few of the $40 million he had cleared on the sale of SalomonBrothers in 1981 (or a few of the $3. 1 million he paid himself in 1986,more than any other Wall Street CEO).
This day in 1986, however, Gutfreund did something strange. Instead of terrifying us all, he walked a straight line to the trading desk of John Meriwether, a member of the board of Salomon Inc. and also one of Salomon's finest bond traders. He whispered a few words. The traders in the vicinity eavesdropped. What Gutfreund said has become a legend at Salomon Brothers and a visceral part of its corporate identity. He said: "One hand, one million dollars, no tears. "
One hand, one million dollars, no tears. Meriwether grabbed the meaning instantly. The King of Wall Street, as Business Week had dubbed Gutfreund, wanted to play a single hand of a game called Liar's Poker for a million dollars. He played the game most afternoons with Meriwether and the six young bond arbitrage traders who worked for Meriwether and was usually skinned alive. Some traders said Gutfreund was heavily outmatched. Others who couldn't imagine John Gutfreund as anything but omnipotent-and there were many said that losing suited his purpose, though exactly what that might be was a mystery.
The peculiar feature of Gutfreund's challenge this time was the size of the stake. Normally his bets didn't exceed a few hundred dollars. A million was unheard of. The final two words of his challenge, "no tears, " meant that the loser was expected to suffer a great deal of pain but wasn't entitled to whine, bitch, or moan about it. He'd just have to hunker down and keep his poverty to himself. But why? You might ask if you were anyone other than the King of Wall Street. Why do it in the first place? Why, in particular, challenge Meriwether instead of some lesser managing director? It seemed an act of sheer lunacy. Meriwether was the King of the Game, the Liar's Poker champion of the Salomon Brothers trading floor.
On the other hand, one thing you learn on a trading floor is that winners like Gutfreund always have some reason for what they do; it might not be the best of reasons, but at least they have a concept in mind. I was not privy to Gutfreund's innermost thoughts, but I do know that all the boys on the trading floor gambled and that he wanted badly to be one of the boys. What I think Gutfreund had in mind in this instance was a desire to show his courage, like the boy who leaps from the high dive. Who better than Meriwether for the purpose? Besides, Meriwether was probably the only trader with both the cash and the nerve to play.
The whole absurd situation needs putting into context. John Meriwether had, in the course of his career, made hundreds of millions of dollars for Salomon Brothers. He had an ability, rare among people and treasured by traders, to hide his state of mind. Most traders divulge whether they are making or losing money by the way they speak or move. They are either overly easy or overly tense. With Meriwether you could never, ever tell. He wore the same blank half-tense expression when he won as he did when he lost. He had, I think, a profound ability to control the two emotions that commonly destroy traders fear and greed and it made him as noble as a man who pursues his self-interest so fiercely can be. He was thought by many within Salomon to be the best bond trader on Wall Street. Around Salomon no tone but awe was used when he was discussed. People would say, "He's the best businessman in the place," or "the best risk taker I have ever seen," or "a very dangerous Liar's Poker player."
Meriwether cast a spell over the young traders who worked for him. His boys ranged in age from twenty-five to thirty-two (he was about forty). Most of them had Ph.D.'s in math, economics, and/or physics. Once they got onto Meriwether's trading desk, however, they forgot they were supposed to be detached intellectuals. They became disciples. They became obsessed by the game of Liar's Poker. They regarded it as their game. And they took it to a new level of seriousness.
John Gutfreund was always the outsider in their game. That Business Week put his picture on the cover and called him the King of Wall Street held little significance for them. I mean, that was, in a way, the whole point. Gutfreund was the King of Wall Street, but Meriwether was King of the Game. When Gutfreund had been crowned by the gentlemen of the press, you could almost hear traders thinking: Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places. . . .
At times Gutfreund himself seemed to agree. He loved to trade. Compared with managing, trading was admirably direct. You made your bets and either you won or you lost. When you won, people will the way up to the top of the firm admired you, envied you, and feared you, and with reason: You controlled the loot. When you managed a firm, well, sure you received your quota of envy, fear, and admiration. But for all the wrong reasons, you did not make the money for Salomon. You did not take risk. You were hostage to your producers. They took risk. They proved their superiority every day by handling risk better than the rest of the risk-taking world. The money came from risk takers such as Meriwether, and whether it came or not was really beyond Gutfreund's control. That's why many people thought that the single rash act of challenging the arbitrage boss to one hand for a million dollars was Gutfreund's way of showing he was a player, too. And if you wanted to show off, Liar's Poker was the only way to go. The game had a powerful meaning for traders. People like John Meriwether believed that Liar's Poker had a lot in common with bond trading. It tested a trader's character. It honed a trader's instincts. A good player made a good trader, and vice versa. We all understood it.
* * *
The game has some of the feel of trading, just as jousting has some of the feel of war. The questions a Liar's Poker player asks himself are, up to a point, the same questions a bond trader asks himself. Is this a smart risk? Do I feel lucky? How cunning is my opponent? Does he have any idea what he's doing, and if not, how do I exploit his ignorance? . . . .
The code of the Liar's Poker player was something like the code of the gunslinger. It required a trader to accept all challenges.
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You can can read the end of the anecdote here. Our point is to illustrate just how significant the craving for financial risk-taking often is, particularly among those who spend a great deal of time taking such risks. Fascinating recent research by neuroeconomists is teaching us more about the nature and extent of that urge. In yesterday's New York Times, Jenny Anderson has an article, titled "Craving the High That Risky Trading Can Bring," summarizing some of those findings. To provide a sense of her article, which is worth the read, we've included a few tidbits below.
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A small group of scientists, including some psychologists, say they are starting to discover what many Wall Street professionals have long suspected — that people are hard-wired for money. The human brain, these researchers say, responds to high-stakes trading just as it does to the lure of sex. And the riskier the trades get, the more the brain craves them.
. . . . That is no surprise to Brian Knutson, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Stanford University and a pioneer in neurofinance, an emerging field that combines psychology, neuroscience and economics, to examine how the brain makes decisions.
Mr. Knutson has sent volunteers through high-power imaging machines to map their brains as they trade. He concludes that sometimes, people get high on making money.
"The more you think you can gain from the risk, the more you take the risk and the more activation in the circuitry," Mr. Knutson said.
* * * Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel Prize-winning psychologist, showed that individuals do not always act rationally when faced with uncertainty in decision making. When faced with losses, individuals may seek to take more risk rather than less, contrary to what traditional economic thought might suggest.
"When you are threatened with extinction, you act like nothing matters," said Andrew Lo, a professor at M.I.T. who has studied the role of emotions in trading. . . .
Mr. Lo and Dmitry V. Repin of Boston University have studied traders to determine how stress and emotions affect investment returns. They monitored traders' vital signs like heart rate, body temperature and respiration as their subjects darted in and out of trades.
The findings, while preliminary, suggest — perhaps unsurprisingly — that traders who let their emotions get the best of them tend to fare poorly in the markets. But traders who rely on logic alone don't do that well either. The most successful ones use their emotions to their advantage without letting the feelings overwhelm them.
"The best traders are the ones who have controlled emotional responses," Mr. Lo said. "Professional athletes have the same reaction — they use emotion to psych them up, but they don't let those emotions take them over."


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For a family historian, great-great-grandfather Culmer White is good value because he liked to write a letter. On Trove Tuesday 2 October, I shared a letter Culmer wrote to the papers thanking the Reverend who married him to Alice Hunt.
Only months before his death, an article in The Argus of 13 January 13 1938, stirred up memories from almost sixty years before when he was only twenty-two. His memory may have failed him a little as you will discover.
Firstly some background into the story. In July 1877, a Martin Wiberg stole over 5,000 freshly minted gold sovereigns from the steamer Avoca on a trip from Sydney to Melbourne. He was not initially suspected and was able to cart the sovereigns, hidden in bars of soap, close to Inverloch, Gippsland.
In October 1878, police captured him, only to have him escape again while supposedly leading them to his stash of sovereigns. In May 1879, police caught up with him again and he served out his term in Pentridge, which was only around four years. He was then believed to have drowned in the sea off Inverloch after his boat was found. In 1897, his name hit the papers again when a Melbourne resident on holiday, made conversation with him in Sweden.
And so to Culmer's letter published in The Argus on 22 January 22 1938. It was one of two letters on that day devoted to Wiberg's case.
Culmer wrote when he checked back in his ledger of 25 September 1879 he found the job for Martin Wiberg. On this date, Wiberg would have been in Pentridge after his recapture. Maybe it was an error while writing the letter and he really he meant 1878 at which time Wiberg was still at large as he was arrested for the first time in October 1878. Prior to his first arrest, Wiberg would have moved the sovereigns, but it is unlikely he would have done that during his second stint on the run in 1879.
While I was going back over this letter for the purpose of this post, I thought I would check if there were more "Letters to the Editor" on the Wiberg matter, hoping there may have been a rebuttal to Culmer's letter in the following weeks. A rebuttal did come on February 12 from J.T.M. of Canterbury. He began by criticising the other letter published on the same day as Culmer's. He then turned his attention to Culmer:
This story has so many twists and turns and newsletters from the Inverloch Historical Society in 2000, state that a local man, Samuel Laycock, may have been an accomplice to Wiberg. One day, some day, when I have time, I will put all the articles about this case on a Trove list.
It doesn't matter that Culmer's memory may have been fuzzy, the article once again demonstrates his lovely style of letter writing and good on him for keeping ledgers for over sixty years. I wonder where they got to? It also confirmed for me his presence in Gippsland during the late 1870s. He married Alice in 1881 at Fern Hill, Gippsland. Before I found the letter, I didn't know where he was prior to 1881 or when he arrived in Australia from Kent. I have found some newspaper articles that have lead me to believe he may have "jumped ship" in 1875, but I'll save that for another Trove Tuesday.
Of course, when I found Culmer's letter I sent a copy to his granddaughter, my great-auntie Jean and like the previous letter, it brought back fond memories of her grandfather.


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5 Small Midwest Towns You'll Love
Zoar, Ohio
Settled in 1817 by German religious separatists who believed hard work led to salvation, Zoar (population: 193) has evolved into a tranquil Middle America town with busy residents and a strong historical character.
Visitors to Zoar (75 miles south of Cleveland) can spend the day browsing 100-year-old photographs and artifacts in the Town Hall, strolling among quality antiques shops and historical homes (left) or taking a guided tour of the village. When nightfall comes, classic-style B&Bs promise simple, comfortable places to slumber.
Click ahead for more details on what to do, where to eat and where to stay in Zoar.
Zoar trip guide
Zoar Community Association (330) 874-2646; zca.org The website has a clickable map of the historic town's 24 remaining buildings.
Antiques in the Wash House An original Zoar washhouse behind The Keeping Room B&B houses high-quality antiques. (330) 874-3181
The Cider Mill Located in a restored cider mill, the newest business in town sells country-style home accessories. (330) 316-9739; cidermillofzoar.com
Zoar Community Association Walking Tours Costumed guides (left) lead groups seasonally from the Zoar Store, a general store (330) 874-2646; www.ohiohistory.org/places/zoar
Zoar Town Hall and Canal Museum This museum is full of photographs and artifacts--plus a shop with Ohio-made products. (330) 874-2646
Firehouse Grille Tasty standouts are chunky chicken nachos and the fist-thick club sandwich. (330) 874-2726; thefirehousegrilleandpub.com/zoar/
Cobbler Shop Bed and Breakfast A beautifully restored home has a huge screen porch overlooking the gardens. (800) 287-1547; cobblershop.com
Stockholm, Wisconsin
You'll still find plenty of Petersons, Andersons and Ericksons in this Swedish-founded town (they originally made their living by fishing and harvesting ice on Lake Pepin). But modern Stockholm (population: 97, located 60 miles southeast of Saint Paul) got its start in the 1970s, when artists began discovering the beauty along Lake Pepin and the Mississippi River.
Travelers eager to explore this stretch of the Great River Road (left) eventually followed, curious about what they'd find along the way (wigreatriverroad.org). Explore art galleries and shops, sample Scandinavian foods and stay for one of the area's festivals that combine old-world heritage with new creative expression.
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Stockholm trip guide
Stockholm Merchants Association (715) 442-2266; stockholmwisconsin.com
Abode Store and Gallery This shop sells a variety of art reflecting river themes. (715) 442-2266; abodegallery.com
Stockholm General Wisconsin Foods, Cheese, Wines and Mercantile Everything in this gourmet food store is from Wisconsin. (715) 442-9077; stockholmgeneral.com
Ingebretsen's Handcrafted Scandinavian imports, books and foods fill this tiny storefront. (715) 442-2220; ingebretsens.com
Stockholm Pottery and Mercantile You'll find locally made stoneware, wood engravings, watercolors and jewelry. (715) 442-9012; stockholmpottery.com
Festivals These include the Midsommer Swedish Festival with Scandinavian foods, maypole dancing and an evening bonfire (stockholmwisconsin.com), and Stockholm Art Fair with more than 100 juried exhibitors (stockholmartfair.org).
The Stockholm Pie Company This popular little eatery serves all kinds of pies, from cream to savory. (715) 442-5505; thestockholmpiecompany.com
Lanesboro, Minnesota
Three words best describe this Root River Valley town of 750: outdoors, agriculture and arts.
Mostly, visitors come for the trail system. Lanesboro (120 miles southeast of the Twin Cities) stands at the heart of the area's paved multi-use trails, including the 42-mile Root River Valley Trail and the 18-mile Harmony-Preston Trail. Many travelers bring their own bikes, but you also can rent them at the Little River General Store (lrgeneralstore.net). Be sure to get a trail map before heading out (rootrivertrail.org).
Art galleries, a seasonal farmers market and a professional theater round out a weekend trip here.
Click ahead for more details on what to do, where to eat and where to stay in Lanesboro.
Lanesboro trip guide
Lanesboro Chamber of Commerce (800) 944-2670; lanesboro.com
The Commonweal Theatre While the professional theater offers comedies, family shows and musicals, it has built a reputation on its annual Henrik Ibsen Festival, honoring the "father of modern drama." (800) 657-7025; commonwealtheatre.org
Lanesboro Art Center A classy collection of local art includes mosaics, fountains, silks and more. (507) 467-2446; lanesboroarts.org
Lanesboro Farmers Market Held seasonally at Sylvan Park, the market has dozens of vendors representing the region's 1,500 farms. (800) 944-2670; lanesboro.com
Old Village Hall Restaurant This seasonal mainstay with a view of the Root River Valley Trail offers special-occasion dining with seasonally inspired snazzy entrees that start at $20 and include New Zealand lamb. (507) 467-2962; oldvillagehall.com
Pedal Pusher's Cafe and Coffee Bar Burgers, flaxseed pancakes and anything made with farm eggs rule here. Special Saturday dinners showcase ingredients that are grown locally. (507) 467-1050; pedalpusherscafe.com
Habberstad House (pictured) Expect hearty breakfasts at this quiet neighborhood spot, an easy stroll to the downtown. (507) 467-3560; habberstadhouse.com
Nappanee, Indiana
Settled on the edge of north-central Indiana's Amish Country, Nappanee (population: 7,070) has a philosophy centered on the phrase "Embrace the Pace." The town has cultivated that spirit by supporting small businesses and an RV industry, and Amish and "English" neighbors live out the slogan in their daily interaction. Horse-drawn wagons (left) are a common sight here.
Nappanee's downtown has shops and restaurants housed in historic buildings, and family-owned shops pepper the countryside. More than 30 of these are featured on Nappanee's Shingle Shoppes Tour (amishcountry.org). Another big draw: the free Quilt Gardens Tour (quiltgardenstour.com), showcasing colorful gardens and murals along a self-guided tour.
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Elkhart County Visitor Center (800) 250-4827; amishcountry.org
Amish Acres Nappanee's historic farmstead is designed to preserve and give insight into Amish heritage. In addition to the farmstead, there's a restaurant, lodging, musical theater and shopping. (800) 800-4942; amishacres.com
Self-guided driving tours Free maps and CDs for the Heritage Trail Audio Tour, a 90-mile tour of Nappanee and her neighbors, are available at the visitors center and also are downloadable online at amishcountry.org. The visitors center also can help with maps for the Shingle Shoppes Tour and the Quilt Gardens Tour. (800) 250-4827; amishcountry.org
Main Street Coffee House Staffers roast the coffee on-site, including flavors from around the world and signature blends. Try their moist and delicious cinnamon coffee cake. (574) 773-5333; mainstreetroasters.com
The Homespun Country Inn Bed and Breakfast Five flowery, comfortable rooms have their own private baths. The hosts, who enjoy chatting with their guests, will arrange in-home dinners with Amish for guests who are interested. From $79. (800) 311-2996; homespuninn.com
Louisiana, Missouri
Perhaps it's the Mississippi River that gives such an aura of permanence to Louisiana, Missouri (100 miles northwest of St. Louis). Its thoroughfares (left) have been called some of the most intact Victorian streetscapes in the state, and its antebellum-style Georgia Street Historic District is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Spending time in Louisiana might mean fishing or boating on the river, strolling the streets to see the 20 murals around town, cruising the 50 Miles of Art corridor, or visiting the ASL Pewter Foundry, which gained acclaim for the 500-plus authentic pewter articles it produced for the HBO biopic John Adams. The Great River Road scenic byway links Louisiana (population: 3,863) to Clarksville and Hannibal, which hold a biannual studio and gallery crawl. All three of these towns have seen artists' communities flourish during the past five years.
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Louisiana trip guide
Louisiana Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Bureau. (888) 642-3800; louisiana-mo.com
ASL Pewter Foundry Tucked inside the 1881 Grand Central Hotel, the foundry's showroom gleams with heirloom-quality tableware (left). The foundry uses molds that date as far back as 1650; the pewtersmiths make original designs, too. (573) 754-3435; aslpewter.com
50 Miles of Art Studio and gallery tours are in March and November, though artists welcome visitors year-round and display work in galleries. 50milesofart.com
St. Louis University's Henry Lay Sculpture Park Sculptures dot 20 wooded acres. The 2-mile gravel walking trail is lovely. Free. (573) 754-4726; slu.edu/events/layctr.html
Stark Brothers Nurseries and Orchards Co. This nearly 200-year-old nursery is known for patented fruit trees. (800) 325-4180; starkbros.com
Daybreak Donuts and Diner The sweet perfume of apple fritters hangs outside. (573) 754-6060; daybreakdonutsanddiner.com
The Eagle's Nest Bistro Try the Eagle Sandwich for lunch (smoked turkey breast, bacon, baby Swiss and basil mayo on foccacia) and spice-crusted salmon for dinner. (573) 754-9888; theeaglesnest-louisiana.com
Eagle's Nest Inn Rooms in this 1859 bank are tastefully modest and pleasant; rates include a hot breakfast. From $95. (573) 754-9888; theeaglesnest-louisiana.com
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Rock 'n' Roll Hair
This is the style that inspired me to come up with a plan for a motorcycle jacket sew-along; more to come on that front. The readers on Facebook and the Twitters were very responsive. What do you think--badass jacket sew-along in early 2012? After all, we need something to wear with our bouffants and skintight pedal pushers! (I feel a Grease number coming on.)
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wow, you look incredible in this photo! your bangs are really great super short like that.ReplyDelete
I've been wanting a motorcycle jacket for a long time and can't seem to find one. I think a sew along is a great idea.
your hair looks awesome! and that sewalong idea sounds fantasticReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 15, 2011 at 11:38 PM
<3 it! You most definitely rawk.ReplyDelete
Oh wow! love the hair and would love the motorcycle jacket sew along, I am a closet rock chick who comes out to play when attending rock tribute bands :-)ReplyDelete
The sew along sounds great - count me in! and I love the hair!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 16, 2011 at 4:12 AM
I love the hair! A Sew Along sounds great - I'd be really intersting to see how a motorcycle jacket is constructed...ReplyDelete
You look so gorgeous!ReplyDelete
Love the hair and the sew-along idea...count me in!ReplyDelete
Are you thinking of using Kwik Sew's motorcycle jacket? It's really well drafted, I used it to make a version in silk organzaReplyDelete
Great hairdo! I don't think I'd ever have the patience to sew a motorcycle jacket, but I'll read the tutorial for any of your great tip on construction if you decide to do a sewalong!ReplyDelete
That looks so cool. Sadly my hair isn't as long as I'd like for this look. But please do a sew-along. I'll probably use a girlie fabric though :) And by the time I actually finish sewing (read: A year after you're done with the sew-along) my hair will be long enough :)ReplyDelete
Love the teased hair, love the motorcycle jacket sew-along idea. Zippers,and leather,and tough oh my!ReplyDelete
Love your hair like that, and you can def count me in for the sew-along -if it's after christmas though! Have lots of sewing to finish for christmas:)ReplyDelete
Love the hair! And I'd be really, really interested in a motorcycle jacket sewalong. There's this pile of incredibly convincing brown faux leather in my stash that's wanted to come out and play, but so far I've been too chicken to attempt it. Sounds like this might be just the thing!ReplyDelete
Sounds fun...and I do ride a motercycle!ReplyDelete
Love it!ReplyDelete
Note to self - grow hair, can't do much when it's short!
- AnonymousNovember 16, 2011 at 9:39 AM
i adore frida, (i often ask if Frida would wear it when buying jewelry!) although i would love to pull off her trademark braids with ribbon and flowers I'm blonde and am worried i would look too much like a swedish heidi!ReplyDelete
sew along is a GREAT idea by the way. doo wop baby!
I have two cycle jackets, while motorcycles themselves terrify me. That means I LOVE the idea!ReplyDelete
You look beautiful! I'm a little sad I cut my hair now ;)ReplyDelete
Wow, both of those looks are beautifully done and suit you perfectly! Amazing how they are so different but both "go with" your gorgeous ink art.ReplyDelete
I'm a YES on the motorcycle jacket - lots of metal zippers and other details, please.
You look gorgeous!ReplyDelete
And a motorcycle jacket sew along would be great!
Please tell me you used Aquanet for that teased 'do...I like the sound of a sew along.ReplyDelete
YES! Awesome hair---you are rockin' it. I would love a motorcycle jacket sewalong. Sounds like fun!ReplyDelete
your hair looks fabooo! i am super excited about the sew along idea.ReplyDelete
You look incredibly wonderful! I am hot to rock a beehive myself but the hair is not long enough, still--- there is a little retro-ness to be had! Jacket? Yes, I have printed out the Burda Motorcycle jacket but have yet to make plans for it.ReplyDelete
I love your hair!!! And motorcycle jacket, yes please!!!ReplyDelete
I like both the styles and I think you rock them! Funny, when I do a braided Frida thing, I think I look like Heidi. But, other people seem to like it. Perception is weird.ReplyDelete
Oh my, I am excited. I was thinking how I would love to make a motorcycle jacket instead of purchasing one to ride around on my scooter with.ReplyDelete
I can't wait.
Yes, yes it does!ReplyDelete
Excellent hair!ReplyDelete
Well up for the motorcycle jacket sewalong, if only for the pretty pictures which will follow from yourself and others. Not sure I have enough confidence in my sewing abilities to actually attempt, but I'm certainly going to bear it in mind!
Love the hair - and yes!!! to the motorcydle jacket sew-a-long. My DD1 has a hankering for one....ReplyDelete
LOVE it!! Motorcycle jacket sounds great but PLEASE where is the blue coat? I've been waiting SO patiently xxxReplyDelete
LOVE it!! Motorcycle jacket sounds great but PLEASE where is the blue coat? I've been waiting SO patiently xxxReplyDelete
Here is a great tutorial too for something on a bit of a larger scale...ReplyDelete
Love it!ReplyDelete
OMG Grease! YES! Recently I have been inspired by the sequel and the outfits worn by Lorna Luft
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Would love a biker jacket to go with it! ^_^
I loved your Henry... take a look at my Bijou:ReplyDelete
Grease is the word that your heard, that your heard. Damn it now I have to listen to Frankie Valli. :)ReplyDelete
A motorcycle jacket sew along sounds fun. Especially since I have Black and brown pleather already in the stash.
You're hair looks great by the way.
- AnonymousNovember 16, 2011 at 9:50 PM
Aw! I'm really into hair looks and I really adore this, very cute. Rock on! heheheReplyDelete
I love the hair!ReplyDelete
By the way, on the subject of motorcycle jackets: I believe you already received your copy of the Burdastyle book at the party. My jacket variation in it was based very loosely on a motorcycle jacket, inspired by the Rolling Stones song 'Motorcycle mama'...
- dirty hippieNovember 17, 2011 at 1:39 PM
I'll join the sew along. I dream of a Helmut Lang motorcycle style jacket to wear over a LBDReplyDelete
cute pic! WOULD LOVE LOVE LOVE a jacket sew a long...ReplyDelete
I loved the hair post- makes me want to get the book!ReplyDelete
And I'd definitely be down for a motorcycle jacket sew-along. I've never managed to find one that fits my shoulders, waist, and bust properly, and I would love to try it in a fun fabric (since black leather isn't really my thing)
- AnonymousNovember 17, 2011 at 3:35 PM
The sew along would be awesome! I want a motorcycle jacket and I'd love to use leather. Unfortunately I haven't managed to get my machine to sew it, so it would be perfect if you could include some tips on that. If that shouldn't work, I'd probably make one anyway and use aome other material..ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 18, 2011 at 11:19 AM
Yes, yes and yes! I would love to start making leather jackets but I am a little intimidated. A leather jacket sew-along would be amazing!ReplyDelete
Seriously LOVE the Rock 'n Roll hair!ReplyDelete
It was so great to meet you in person last weekend.
This is the sew along I want...the one I want, one I want, ooh, ooh, ooh! I'm picturing tweed or velvet, though, or maybe even lace.ReplyDelete
Gorgeous hair!
I love your hair it looks gorgeous!! I love your tattoos too! XxxX http://thesecondhandrose.blogspot.com/ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 21, 2011 at 11:55 AM
Gorgeous, Gretchen! And, a motorcycle jacket Sew-Along would be awesome. I'd definitely push aside my other sewing projects for something like that!ReplyDelete
Sew along I'm in. Love the hair.ReplyDelete
I'll be in that Sew-Along!ReplyDelete
I'd love to sew along with a motorcycle jacket - I ordered the moto jacket from Hot Patterns and am planning to use that pattern! Great idea!ReplyDelete
Such a nice and elegant style.ReplyDelete


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"I don't know your personal life," ESPN vice president and executive editor John Walsh told me, on the phone. "I wouldn't comment on anyone's personal life."
Earlier today, on Twitter, two different journalism students had written otherwise: that Walsh—the living, beating heart of ESPN's newsgathering operation—told their class that Deadspin's coverage of ESPN's serial plagiarist Lynn Hoppes was a vendetta caused by Hoppes having stolen my girlfriend. Not by Hoppes having blatantly copied and pasted material from Wikipedia in his work for ESPN. A "romantic rivalry." A love triangle.
All along, the defining feature of the Hoppes case has been ESPN's shamelessness. There was the weird obviousness of the plagiarism itself, right under the nose of Walsh, who'd brought impeccable credentials—managing editor of Rolling Stone in its heyday, founding editor of Inside Sports—to the network's news operation. And then came the weird stonewalling, as ESPN's news division simply refused to correct or publicly punish what would have been retraction-and-firing stuff in most major news organizations.
And now here was ESPN's news honcho allegedly spreading unsourced rumors about romantic entanglements to a classroom of journalists in training. How did it come to this?
Walsh was a guest at a University of Maryland class taught by former ESPN ombudsman George Solomon. According to Maryland senior Mark Sanchez, who was in the class, the students were permitted to ask two questions apiece: one related to something they liked about ESPN, and another related to something they didn't like.
"I was very annoyed," Sanchez told me, "because a lot of it was, like, 'I love 30 for 30,' or, 'I love X about ESPN.'"
So, Sanchez decided to take a different tack: He asked about Lynn Hoppes. Hoppes, in case you're unfamiliar, is the ESPN.com senior writer who plagiarized from Wikipedia at least a dozen times. Months after our initial posts about the plagiarism, his stories remained unchanged. So we asked three respected media critics—Jack Shafer, Dan Okrent, and David Carr—to weigh in as well. "If I were them," Okrent told us, "I would be embarrassed."
Back to Sanchez: "I was actually the last person to ask a question, so there wasn't much time left," he told me. "And I brought you up and Deadspin and said, 'What response do you have to this?' He cut me off in the middle and said the whole Hoppes-and-you situation revolved around a girlfriend dispute—that Hoppes had apparently stolen your girlfriend a while back. And all the Hoppes information you guys posted about was months and months old and it only resurfaced because of that controversy."
My … girlfriend? Well, about that. I've never had a girlfriend. I am gay, gay, gay. So gay. Don't believe me? Ask my real-life human-being boyfriend!
But obviously Walsh was joking, right? "There was a zero percent chance he was joking about it," Sanchez said. The room had gone silent, according to the student, and Walsh seemed "physically annoyed" by the line of questioning.
Wait, are we sure he wasn't joking? We are talking about John Walsh, after all—one of the most important figures in ESPN history, and one of the great journalists of our time.
"He said that the articles had been up there for months," Sanchez said, "and it only resurfaced because of the girlfriend dispute."
So, what the hell was Walsh talking about? A few hours after this hit Twitter, I heard from ESPN's PR guy, Josh Krulewitz. He said Walsh wanted to talk to me. We spoke for a few minutes off the record, and then he was cool with moving things back on the record. So … what romantic dispute?
"I said there had been a rumor about a potential romantic rivalry potentially being a motivation for this story," Walsh told me. "I didn't say it was a Deadspin staffer. I didn't say it was your name. I didn't say it was anybody's name."
Right, OK. Wait, huh?
"I raised the issue, 'Why did somebody decide that this topic was relevant several months after the story had been gone through and dealt with, et cetera,'" he continued. "I said I heard a rumor that the motivation for that might have been steeped in a romantic rivalry."
(Sanchez later disputed this, and so did several other students he checked with. He was certain Walsh mentioned me by name.)
Tell us more. What's this romantic rivalry?
"That's all I heard," he said. "I didn't hear anything more than that. It was a passing reference. It wasn't worth my time to say, 'Oh yeah, well, what's the dish here?' I'm not that kind of person."
But then why bring it up in a college class? He said something about social media that I didn't quite follow.
Maybe, I wondered, Walsh got his details crossed up. After all, Deadspin's editor, Tommy Craggs, was all set to leave the site for ESPN's Grantland last year. Well, he was until he wrote something mean about Hoppes. Walsh and Craggs met for a chat, ostensibly to smooth things over. A pink gorilla got involved. Craggs soon pulled out of negotiations. Maybe the love triangle was an elaborate metaphor that picked up static in its game-of-telephone passage from Walsh to the classroom to Twitter?
"That has nothing to do with any of that," Walsh said. "Nothing at all. Nothing at all. Please. I still have fond memories of the pink-gorilla stuff."
And that's when he assured me he wouldn't comment on anyone's personal life, least of all mine.
Let's return to intrepid cub reporter, Mr. Sanchez, and his dialogue with Walsh.
"So then I said, 'Putting that aside, what about [the Hoppes plagiarism examples]?'" Sanchez said. "He said that they had scrapped all the articles that found to be plagiarized."
Not true. The stories had not been updated. When he talked to me, Walsh claimed he hadn't said that.
"I said I didn't really know," he said. "I thought they might have been scrapped. I wasn't familiar with all those decisions being made."
According to Sanchez, Walsh also told the class that Deadspin had never broken any news. Walsh denied that. ("I didn't say that. No, I did not say that").
In the classroom, Sanchez continued to press Walsh.
"And then I asked how about the reports about the ESPN anchors taking verbatim reports from Yahoo Sports or wherever they came from," he said. "He said that was not plagiarism—which I took issue with—but that it was just lazy reporting and that they've been talked to and it wasn't plagiarism. I then said, 'If you take words verbatim from another source it's plagiarism.' And then Solomon, I think, sensed that it was getting a bit too tense and said, 'Well, that's about all we'll have for today.'"
Class dismissed!
What's the upshot of all this? Krulewitz, the ESPN spokesman, called me to say that Hoppes's plagiarized items will now be updated. His statement:
We stand by our original comments which suggested that even though multiple legitimate news sources were used to gather background information, we should always recite even the most basic facts in an original voice. Given that the level of attention to these posts has now significantly exceeded the relative importance of those items to our site's archives, we will be removing or amending them in the near future and moving on.
That's all it took.
UPDATE, 10:58 a.m.: The Hoppes stories have been updated.
Also, I've heard from two other people who were at the Walsh class. Adam Gutekunst, a junior, told me in an email: "I can confirm that Walsh said specifically that Hoppes had stolen your girlfriend." Maryland junior Josh Axelrod told me, "I am pretty sure Walsh directly referenced your name in class. If he didn't say your name, he was definitely referring to you (because Mark asked about you and Hoppes specifically)." This backs up what Sanchez told us yesterday. In my conversation with Walsh, he insisted that when he mentioned a "romantic rivalry" rumor, he wasn't referring to anyone specific.


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On December 3rd, last Thursday, the Israel-America Chamber of Commerce held a full day conference in the Wall Street area of Manhattan at 55 Broad Street. Many distinguished American and Israeli business leaders and professionals (in a variety of disciplines) were in attendance. Israel's Minister for Infrastructure (Uzi Landau) was keynote speaker. The Governor of the Bank of Israel, Dr. Stanley Fischer, was among the many notable speakers and workshop moderators. Subjects ranged from Education to Health, to discussions of the many challenges the US and Israel face in the current global climate.
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From the New York Times: "A total of 55 plants have closed or have announced plans to shut down, according to a count by the Sierra Club. That will leave 395 coal-burning plants in the United States, compared with 522 in 2010, according to the Sierra Club."
…"Nationwide, coal production dropped this year by an estimated 7 percent even as exports grew to Asia and Europe, according to the Energy Department."
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General Return Policy
Desktop / notebook computers, tablets, processors, motherboards, digital cameras, camcorders and projectors, 3D printers, 3D scanners, and CD/DVD duplicators may be returned within 15 days of purchase. All other products may be returned within 30 days of purchase. Merchandise must be in new condition, with original carton / UPC, and all packaging / accessories / materials. If you need to return software, a game or a movie, remember that you may not retain any copies — it's not legal, and it's not nice.
Digital Downloads
All Digital Download sales are final and are not eligible for return or refund under the Micro Center Return Policy.
Using the software may require the use of a computer or other device that must meet minimum system requirements. It is recommended that you familiarize yourself with the system requirements before making your purchase. Software system requirements are typically found on the Product information specification page.
Aerial Drones
Micro Center is happy to honor its customary 30-day return policy for Aerial Drone returns due to product defect or customer dissatisfaction. Unfortunately, we cannot accept returns with damage due to pilot error. So let's be careful out there!
As of December 21, 2015 all drones, regardless of purchase date, between 0.55 lb (8.82 oz, 250 g, 0.25 kg) and 55 lb take-off weight are required by the FAA to be registered for outdoor use. Details regarding registration can be found at: https://www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/
Wireless Phones & Devices
Wireless Phones are not eligible for return. (COVID-19 Safety Measure)
Micro Center Support:
Walk-in Tech Support
As a service to our customers, Micro Center offers in-store technical support. Stop in any of our store locations during regular business hours, and our expert staff will answer your computer questions or help you with things like:
- Hardware troubleshooting
- Wireless and wired networking
- Software configuration
- Upgrades
- Tips and tricks
Support for Micro Center purchases
If you need help with products purchased from Micro Center, please contact one of our knowledgeable tech support reps using the online chat button below, or visit our Tech Support page for additional options and helpful information.
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Tech Support Hours
- Monday - Friday 9 am to 12 midnight
- Saturday 10 am to 12 midnight
- Sunday 11 am to 9 pm
- Eastern Time
- * excluding posted holiday hours
Free assistance is available for the first 60 days on new purchases, excluding internal hardware installations or networking support. Your invoice reference number will be required for free assistance.
Ask your Support Technician about additional options available through our exclusive Priority Care Program.
Tech Support accepts the following credit cards: VISA; MasterCard; Discover; American Express
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